Starting An Online Internet Business
7 Tips To Make It Easier
For several years I did research online to find the real internet “gurus” to learn how to start an online business. Everything that I saw I had to learn about. The problem was, I was trying to learn too many things at once.
Quick note: The more I tried to learn the more confusing it all seemed. I had to slow down to make any progress at all.
There are many ways to earn money online. Among the most popular are online stores, affiliate marketing, internet auctions and selling information products or e-books. I have subscribed to newsletters, read e-books and even listened to tele-seminars to learn about all of these and more. In the process of learning, guess what happened? I was reading about the success of others and becoming very frustrated with my lack of success. I have learned some lessons along the way. Here are some tips, I hope you will find helpful:
1. Start a Blog. A blog is a necessary tool in starting your online business. Your blog is your business home. Blogs help you to brand yourself and when you get the skills to sell your products or if you choose to sell affiliate products your customers will know you.
- When you have a blog you are seen as a person with authority.
- Customers get to know and trust you.
You do need your own word press blog. Don’t use a Free Blog as it limits what you can do with it and it could be shut down.
2. Create a business around something you are passionate about.
What are your Interests?
- Health and Wellness
- Pets
- Personal development
- Ebay
- Selling info products
- Travel
3. Set realistic goals that are well defined. Keep it simple, especially if you are just starting out. For example, you could set a goal of seven days.
- Purchase a Domain Name that Brands you
- Set up a Blog
- Do your First Blog Post
- Develop your Products (what do you want to sell)
I had so many broad, complicated goals that I could not reach them. I may as well have had no goals at all.
You must Clearly define what you want to accomplish in this business of yours
4. Decide on a budget for your business…There is no such thing a get rich quick.
You must treat business as a business and you have to know how you will drive traffic to your business Hub (Your Blog)
Here is a Great Place to Start
What Tools will you need?
- Blogging Platform
- Autoresponder
How will you learn the skills needed to build a sucessful business?
- Purchase Courses
- Hire a coach
How will you promote your Business?
- Social Media (Twitter, Instagram, Facebook)
- Paid Advertising (Google, Bing, Facebook ads)
5. How will you follow up with your customers?
Content Marketing is a Great way to attract and continue building relationships.
The definition of Content Marketing straight from The Content Marketing Institute describes perfectly what we are looking to accomplish in our business.
Content marketing is used throughout the whole selling process.
- Attract new visitors to Blog
- Engage the Audience
- Generate leads
- Convert leads into Customers
- The Upsell (sell additional products to existing customers.
6. Have a positive mindset! If you think you are going to fail, most likely you will. Avoid listening to others who tell you that you can’t do it. Talk with others about your business who are positive. Believe me, it really helps!
Instead of speaking negative thoughts like I am overwhelmed why not say I am learning something new and this Feels Great.
Learn New things Daily and then practice and show others.
Surround yourself with a group of successful people.
7. Take action! One of the biggest mistakes that I made was doing so much research, that is all I was doing.
Bring out the child in yourself. Make it a game.
The funny thing is, most of the information I read told me to take action but I didn’t listen. I had a million reasons why I couldn’t just go ahead and start making money online. I didn’t know enough yet or I had not saved enough money. I learned the most by actually doing what I had only been dreaming about before.
By following these tips, I know you will find success online even if you just want to earn some extra money. If you make some mistakes, and you probably will, learn from them and use it as a tool to become more successful.
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